Navigating the Transition from Nonprofit Founder to Chief Executive Officer Led Organisation

By Paola Carrillo • September 21, 2024
At ConnectedGroup, we have engaged multiple founders who, due to different reasons, have made the decision to hand their organisation over to new leadership. We have learnt this transition can come as a challenging yet pivotal moment in the journey, and it requires careful navigation to ensure continuity, as well as unhindered growth and progress. Given the challenges, and both successful and less impactful examples that we have encountered, we are sharing our insights (that could be used as a guide) for both the founder, the board, and the incoming CEO, on how to manage this transition smoothly. To the Founder: 1. Stepping back from day-to-day operations and specially from decision making will be difficult and emotional. It’s important for you to prepare mentally and emotionally, focus on the long-term benefits of bringing in new leadership for organisational growth (go back to when you started thinking about this transition, hold on to the reasons that took you to making this decision). It is easy to dream about the upsides but, you will need to prepare yourself for a journey with numerous obstacles to overcome. Remember, you have created this organisation, and you want to see it last and thrive, with or without you. That legacy will be your greatest achievement.

Making the Transition from Corporate to Not-For-Profit in Hong Kong

By Mat Gollop • June 18, 2024
Making the Transition from Corporate to Not-For-Profit in Hong Kong

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Recruit4Good was founded with the belief that recruitment is not a core skill within most not-for-profit organisations and that the recruitment industry can play a role in enabling and amplifying the inherent goodwill across the relevant talent pools by connecting great candidates with great causes.


This platform has been established as a pro-bono service and will endeavour to remain this way. At this stage the platform is open to not-for-profit organisations with a charitable mission to advertise their opportunities free of charge. Other organisations within the ecosystem (for-profit social ventures, philanthropic departments in commercial organisations and educational institutions for example) can also advertise but may be asked to pay to continue to use the service at a future point.


The platform is also available to use by Recruit4Good recruitment agency partners who are conducting pro-bono searches for charitable causes.


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Permanent roles

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Board & Advisory

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Strategic Volunteer

Unpaid roles that differ from casual volunteering in that they require a specific skillset for a fixed period of time. Examples can include fixed contracts or projects for experts in technology, marketing, legal, finance etc.


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